Word: boomerism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unless Social Security is changed, Kotlikoff said, the system will be overburdened once the Baby Boomer generation begins to retire in the next decade...
...knowing, irony-drenched world of baby-boomer culture, no one wants to be thought a prig. So let's stipulate that simple adultery would not have endangered the President politically or created the lurid spectacle before us. He's been accused of that before and survived. People seemed not to believe his denials in 1992 about Gennifer Flowers--in fact, according to leaks from his recent deposition, the President seems not to have believed them himself--but the public apparently forgave him. An implicit bargain was struck, and it's hard to imagine a national convulsion erupting from disclosures that...
...charge of obstructing justice to the threat of impeachment, and then to the morning of his maudlin-defiant resignation. Or, imagining a precedent for the origins of the current mess, they went back to Bill Clinton's Rose Garden hero of long ago, John Kennedy, the martyred Ur-boomer who may have been Clinton's role model in obdurately reckless...
REPLACED. FRANK GIFFORD, 67, co-host of ABC's Monday Night Football for the past 27 years; by BOOMER ESIASON, 36, the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback who quit the team last week to join the network...
...plans to show that if it tugs the heartstrings, it will pluck the purse strings too. With such slogans as "More power and less flower" and "If you sold your soul in the 1980s, here's your chance to buy it back," VW hopes that blending baby-boomer nostalgia with Generation X sophistication will help sell as many as 50,000 Beetles in the next year. "This car is for people who see the world's glass as half full," gushes Jens Neumann, VW managing director for North America. "There is a delightful, approachable familiarity about this car. When people...